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Transcendental simplicial volumes

Geometric Topology 2020-11-17 v2 Group Theory

Abstract

We show that there exist closed manifolds with arbitrarily small transcendental simplicial volumes. Moreover, we exhibit an explicit uncountable family of (transcendental) real numbers that are not realised as the simplicial volume of a closed manifold.

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@article{arxiv.1911.06386,
  title  = {Transcendental simplicial volumes},
  author = {Nicolaus Heuer and Clara Loeh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.06386},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Final version. To appear in Annales de l'institut Fourier

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